Craving a fantasy book with bite? These reads will deliver. From eerie fairy tales to epic sagas, each of these eight dark fantasy books exposes the dangerous underbelly of fantasy worlds. In these stories, brutal battles come with a cost, not all romances end with happily ever afters, and humanity’s capacity for cruelty and cowardice can’t be solved with a simple spell. That’s not to say these books are depressing; by contrast, each of them will pull you into an absolutely mesmerizing and magical world. Just keep your wits about you while you visit … it wouldn’t do to get lost in these dark fantasies forever.